Messages from mortality: The evolution of death rates in the old

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 438-442

  Partridge, Linda ^a   Mangel, Marc ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; BIOMEDICINE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; GERONTOLOGY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; THEORY;

EID: 0033231963     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01646-8     Document Type: Review

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